Kiteboarding Basics

I just started kite boarding like a 2 months ago and had caught the wind like 5 times now. Just this week the wind started up again on the coast of Sanur. It's the westerly wind which can be strong and gusty at times.
I am just a novice; no where near being advance however I have upgraded from using the wide board to the narrower board which is much more smoother or slippery I call it as the board and the water surface tend to be frictionless. Trust me, I had a good underwater experience the first time I stood up on this board. The thing about using this narrow board is you need to edge it as suppose to the wide board where edging is not really something a beginner needs to worry about. All we beginner wants is to get up on the board and go with the wind. Upwind or downwind, who cares as long as we are up, we are happy. But getting up is just one more step closer. The next step is to stay up and control the kite to the power that you need. With the narrower board, one can maneuver a lot more easily however to get to this you must first be up on the board,control the kite to the "comfort Zone" I call it. This zone to me is where I know that I am in control of the kite in terms of the power and the wind; the kite is capturing.In this zone, I am able to talk to myself.I am calm and I can program myself to do more, like edge the board more,get the board to point into the direction that I wanna go and soon be able to fly. This comfort zone that you achieved right after you get up on the board is the zone where every learner will have to go through at least once. As for the pros, this zone has become them but once before this zone was the thing they were searching for too.

So to all of you beginners/learners out there, go find that zone, from then on, it gets easier. Nothing more can be verbally taught by an instructor after you gotten that zone. The rest is all practice and practice. Not until you get that comfort zone that you actually get the feel of kite boarding.

SMILE


This article is entirely the authors experience and opinion of the subject.